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About Jasig uPortal
Copyright Unicon, Inc., 2009. Some Rights Reserved.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
Some content drawn from prior presentations at Jasig conferences and elsewhere.
Andrew PetroUnicon, Inc.
18 November 2009
Agenda
1. Introduction
• About Unicon
• About uPortal
2. Portal Core
3. User Interface
4. Integration
5. Infrastructure
6. Unicon Services
7. Roadmap
8. Questions and Discussion
IntroductionUnicon
Unicon Profile
• Located in Gilbert, AZ – founded in 1993
• Who Are We?
– A Privately-Held, Profitable Company
– Serving Higher Education
• And related industries
– Around 100 People
Open Source Services and Support
uPortal
Shibboleth
Unicon VisionAssist organizations to
adopt open source solutions and succeed wildly with them. Earn continued
business with excellence, not vendor-lock-in or constricting licenses.
Higher Education Customers – Partial List
Example CustomersUniversity of Chicago:
• Full uPortal deployment
• Shibboleth integration
• uPortal architecture and custom modifications
• uPortal Support
Johns Hopkins University:
• uPortal upgrades
• uPortal support
• uPortal branding / mobile
• uPortal architecture and custom modifications
Yale University:
• uPortal upgrades
• uPortal support
Commercial Customers & Partners
CommercialCustomers
Partners
ExamplesPearson Education:
• Full uPortal deployment
• Over 2 million users currently on Portal
• Communities, Marketing, Cross-Sell
Cisco:
• Full Portal, CAS, and Moodle deployment
• Workforce retraining in the state of Michigan
• Integration with WebEX and Google Analytics
• Communities and Marketing
Oracle:
• Chose Unicon to implement Standards-based integrations between PeopleSoft and LMS (Sakai) – SAIP
• Unicon is the primary provider of SAIP services
IntroductionuPortal
Enterprise Portals
• Aggregate Content & Applications
• Customization/Personalization
• Access Control
• Consistent User Experience &
Service Delivery Platform
Enterprise portals provide capabilities in 4 major areas:
Virginia Tech
University of Wisconsin
Brooklyn College – Student View
Brooklyn College – Faculty View
Consistent User Experience - Pearson
uPortal Intro - uPortal as Product
• Open Source – built by and for Higher Ed (2000)
• Flexible pluggable APIs for authentication, user
attributes, groups (integrate it with your sources of